Platyceras (Platyceras) subelegans Girty 1910 (snail)

Gastropoda - Euomphalina - Platyceratidae

Alternative combination: Platyceras subelegans

Full reference: G. H. Girty. 1910. New genera and species of Carboniferous fossils from the Fayetteville shale of Arkansas. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 20(3):189-238

Belongs to Platyceras (Platyceras) according to E. L. Yochelson 1969

See also Girty 1910

Sister taxa: Platyceras (Platyceras) neverovoensis, Platyceras (Platyceras) parasiticum

Type specimen: USNM 16135, a shell

Ecology: facultatively mobile epifaunal parasite

Distribution: found only at USNM 3636. Tahlequah-Menard road, Muskogee (Carboniferous of Oklahoma)

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